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DEARBORN, Mich., May 5, 2010 — The countdown to FABTECH 2010 is underway as the event returns to the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, November 2-4, 2010. This represents the first time in four years that the show will take place in the Southeastern corridor, a region that...

( American Chemical Society ) A prescription drug already approved to treat genital warts and skin cancer may have a new use in boosting the effectiveness of future vaccines for bacterial and viral diseases, such as hepatitis C and HIV. These findings appear in ACS' Molecular...

Renewable electricity can be transformed into a substitute for natural gas. Until now, electricity was generated from gas. Now, a German-Austrian cooperation wants to go in the opposite direction. In the future, these researchers and entrepreneurs would like to store surplus electricity –...

( European Space Agency ) As fears grow that the Loop Current in the Gulf of Mexico could soon catch the oil slick and drag it south towards coral reefs in the Florida Keys, scientists are monitoring the situation closely with ESA's Envisat radar data.

LONDON (Reuters) - European carbon prices clawed back from being down nearly 3 percent early on Wednesday to close back above 16 euros a tonne after energy and equity markets staged a late day recovery, traders said.

( National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (UK) ) A scientific team led by Dr. Peter Talling of the UK's National Oceanography Centre is currently aboard the Royal Research Ship James Cook to map extremely large landslide deposits offshore from an active volcano on Montserrat in the...

( ESO ) A new wide-field image released today by ESO displays many thousands of distant galaxies, and more particularly a large group belonging to the massive galaxy cluster known as Abell 315. As crowded as it may appear, this assembly of galaxies is only the proverbial "tip of the...

( Rice University ) The team of Rice seniors Jon Stanley, Ashley Hill and Laura Leim delivered the Trek Tracker, a high-tech video camera on a trolley that automates the process of videotaping a patient's gait, from the perfect angle, while the patient walks.

( University of Colorado at Boulder ) A team of researchers led by the University of Colorado at Boulder believe a dry powder, inhalable vaccine developed for measles prevention and slated for human clinical trials later this year in India will lead to other inhalable, inexpensive...

( Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ) Our social networks are staple sources of information, advice, and ideas. Add technology to the mix -- Twitter, Facebook, cell phones -- and the power of social networks balloons to a global scale. Harnessing that power is the work of the new...

VENICE, Louisiana (Reuters) - An army of workers toiled above and below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday to plug a gushing oil leak and protect the U.S. shoreline in one of the biggest spill containment efforts ever mounted.

DEARBORN, Mich., May 4, 2010 — Robots used for both business and consumers aren’t the stuff of science fiction anymore thanks to the contributions of Rodney Brooks, PhD. Brooks is a robotics entrepreneur, founder, chairman and chief technology officer of Heartland Robotics Inc.,...